Lottery

1983 "Lottery" is a life size oil on canvas, 8 x 4 feet, in the collection of Sandy Walker. This piece was inspired by a dream of the Colosseum, as looked at from nearby, with a horse standing in one of the upper openings. This was one of the paintings in my first one person show at Fuller-Goldeen Gallery in San Francisco, three months after getting my MFA. This painting was used as one of the annual posters for the Hampton Classic, and sold out (although I still have some available).

Chivalry

1982 "Chivalry" is 3 x 4 feet, in a private collection. This painting was used as the cover image for the catalog of "Ceci N'est Pas le Surrealisme", a large group survey of contemporary surrealist painters exhibited at the Fisher Gallery, UCLA and the Pratt in Manhattan. I had several pieces in the show, while still an undergrad.

Capriole

This is 1983 "Capriole", 9 x 12 foot oil on canvas, in the collection of Roselyne Swig. This painting was done during my graduate school years, and is shown in the graduate exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute. There was a juried show going on all over the school with Marcia Tucker of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC) as juror. The work in the grad show was not supposed to be included, but she insisted on giving this painting a special award. I was thrilled and flattered.

This painting of a life-size Lipizzaner from the Spanish Riding School performing the capriole is part of a group of paintings I was doing then and have returned to now and then. This particular movement intrigues me because of the paradox that it appears to depict flight, but in fact is an upward explosion and kick backward that ends exactly where it started. There is no freedom involved, and the horse is held on a line by a handler at all times.

Now that the power has been restored, I'm back in the studio. This has been another season of weather extremes in NY, along with a mosquito population exposion that has kept me out of the garden and running between buildings.

Here are a few paintings from my California days. First up: 1982 "Country Mouse", oil on canvas 8 x 4 feet, in the collection of Lankford and Cook. I was feeling the pressure of city living again after a few years in the country, in my undergraduate years at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The Studio

Getting Started

Welcome!
If you are familiar with my work, you know you will be seeing images of my contemporary oils on canvas, primarily of horses. If my work is new to you, I hope you will stop here from time to time to see some images of this body of work, begun in 1980. I will post events and announcements, the occasional remark on the ethics of equestrian sports, and bits about an artist's life.

Bear with me while I attempt to upload a picture of my studio.